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Toronto Blue Jays star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has been outstanding in the postseason.
Guerrero Jr., 26, has a .442 batting average, six home runs and 12 RBIs in 51 plate appearances in 11 games. He was named ALCS MVP for his performance against the Seattle Mariners.
Now Guerrero is tasked with helping the Blue Jays win four more games and win the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers to bring a championship to Canada. The first game will take place Friday at 8 p.m. ET at the Rogers Center in Toronto and will be broadcast on FOX.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays will face off in the 2025 World Series. (FOX)
“I was born here,” Guerrero said through an interpreter, according to MLB.com. “I grew up in the Dominican Republic, and from the moment I signed here, I knew I was going to be here my whole career, I knew that somehow I had to make all the fans, the whole country, proud of me, of my team. And like I always say, my challenge is to bring the World Series back here to Canada.”
In April, Guerrero signed a 14-year, $500 million contract that made him the face of the franchise. So far in October, Guerrero has kept his massive deal.
His six postseason home runs are already tied for the most in franchise history, alongside Joe Carter and José Bautista.
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Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. holds the American League Championship Series MVP trophy as the baseball team celebrates after defeating the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the series in Toronto on October 20, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
“He’s the face of the franchise,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said, according to MLB.com. “I remember one conversation, it was me and Max (Scherzer). It was in April in (my office). We talked about ‘Hey, you’re the standard now for this team’ and what comes with that, how you should act, how you should talk. He was great. He was just very, very aware of everything that’s going on, which is very hard to do when the spotlight is on you.”
Guerrero not only struck out, but also showed off his exceptional bat-ball skills this postseason, as he struck out just three times.
The Blue Jays will need their superstar first baseman to be at his best against the Dodgers’ vaunted starting rotation.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates during the fourth inning against the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at Rogers Center on October 19, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Cole Burston/Getty Images)
The Dodgers pitching staff, especially their starting pitchers, has been sensational, allowing just 28 runs in 10 postseason games. The team’s elite rotation of Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani has carried the load thus far.
Snell starts Game 1 for the Dodgers while the Blue Jays start rookie Trey Yesavage.
